The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-01-30

confidence and respect OF DIS own party.
Even the enemy despises traitors, although
it msy be policy to reward them.
The son whom Governor Green appoint
ed his private secretary, is fresh from col
lege, and thinks Trenton an awfully dull
town that offers him no recompense for the
loss of Washington society.
We asserted several months ago that in
a certain emergency the Republicans wonld
throw General Sewell and nominate Will
liam Walter Phelps for Senator in an effort
to catch the two Labor votes.
While the court expenses in this county
were fraction over SAT 600 last year, those
Of Essex were over $4,000, and yet the
volume of business is quite as heavy here
as there.
Ex-Bedle is the most pronounced advo-
cate of the railroad monopolies in this
State no Democrat can vote for his cleo
ton to the u. s. Senate without betrayIng
the trusts reposed in him by his constit-
uency.
The strike of the coal handlers has sue
cAedsd in making coal luxury in New
York that poor people CAM OF indulge ID,
while the opulent with their well-hlled
storehouses of that commodity can abide
the result without the slightest discomfort.
In case tried at Freehold the other day
in which Mr.. VIM. t. Albeit was en-
ployed as attorney. an old lady refused to
testify until that ''young boy. (meaning
Mr. Abbett) left the room. as her eviden ce
was untitled for the ears of ''that child"
1t is shrewdly surmised that both the
State Treasurer and Comptroller have done
all in their power o throw the election for
q. S. Senator over until next year, as their
terms of Office expire at that time, and
they would like General Sewell or any
other Republican aspirant for Senatorial
honors help them elect majority on joint
ballot.
If the Republican Senators adhere to
their policy and refuse to organize it natu-
rally follows that there can be no adjourn
ment of the Senate. In that event the
Office of Chancellor and that of number
of Supreme Court Justices will remain
vacant for a year, as these appointments
must be made with the advice and consent
of the Senate, an impossibility when none
exists. And ss the Governor can only APP
point ad-interim after s'the adjournment"
of the Senate, it is under the exis ing cir.
cumstances disbarred from pursuing that
course.
If the corporations whose property lies
within the corporate limits of this city and
Hoboken will serve the Mayors with a legal
notice to the effect that their property is
being threatened by mob violence, these
gentlemen are compelled under the law
(see Revised Statutes, page 9799S0) to
take all legal means to protect the property
threatened And section 5 of the same act
ma yes the city liable for all destruction of
such real or personal losses by mob vio-
lence. Does Mr.. Cleveland still insist that
it is no part of the duty of our police to
protect such property
How easily the people aid even the pa
pers are befogged by the wiles of the rail-
road manipulators When the Baltimore &
Ohio people saw no other way of reaching
New York than by the Staten Island ter
minus. they contracted for great block of
ground there on condition that payment
should only be made if the company OBJ
tanned the privilege to build a bridge over
the Arthur Kill. After great fight they
obtained that privilege from Congress, that
is, providing the United States engineers
should report the reject feasible. In the
meantime Mr.. Garrett changed his plans
and made arrangements to give his road
terminus on our shore, then to avoid being
saddled with the Staten Island land pur-
chase he gets the government engineers to
report the bridge plan impracticable.
That's all there is of it, and our Repre- S snt-
atives at Washington needn't waste any
more breath over it.